Sentence examples for patrimonial system from inspiring English sources

And the dependence on the state that the patrimonial system created has not vanished.

But after 2002, it put its feet up, thinking it had arrived, and too much "Euro-oil" from the European Union went back to financing a corrupt, patrimonial system whereby politicians dispensed government jobs and projects to localities in return for votes.

One of the hallmarks of a patrimonial system is that government posts tend to be filled according to who people are, rather than their capacity to do the job: the holder of the office is often more important than the office itself.

The Russian empire under both czars and Soviets was a patrimonial system where the monarch or the Communist Party/state owned everything, to the detriment of economic, social and political progress.

Another hallmark of patrimonial systems is that "the ruler does not distinguish between personal and public patrimony and treats matters and resources of state as his personal affair".

His research focuses on the politics of conflict and elite bargaining in neo-patrimonial political systems.

Ben's research examines how international targeted sanctions interact with domestic logics of political control and the ways in which this impacts elite bargaining preferences, governance strategies and political outcomes in neo-patrimonial political systems.

Instead, it strengthened what he calls "patrimonial capitalism" — a system in which the key determinant of success is how close you are to those in power.

Instead, it strengthened what he calls "patrimonial capitalism"—a system in which the key determinant of success is how close you are to those in power.

In practice, it also shapes a patrimonial authority arrangement which is crucial to defining both the immediate experiences and the long-run career chances of individual managers.

This is what Max Weber, the German sociologist, described as a patrimonial style of government – a system once found also in Europe, where (as one writer put it) "the mechanics of the household are the model for political administration".